Thursday, January 29, 2009
Mobile Bridal Expo
In addition to the booth, and lots of yummy cupcakes free to taste, I'm also making 5 tier, 3' tall cake that will be destroyed by 4 brides looking for a wedding band that's been hidden inside it. Should be loads of fun!
So, if you're getting married, come check it out. Tickets are $10 in advance and $12 at the door.
Here's the website...check it out!
http://www.bridalexpomobile.com/
Sunday, January 25, 2009
Cake Competition II
The theme is "The Great Outdoors" but as a theme for a wedding cake. I tried to feminize the theme as much as possible so I thought to myself, "What's more feminine than the wedding dress itself?" So, I created a cherry blossom tree (cherry blossoms are pretty big right now) that becomes the wedding dress. The cherry blossoms will be in an ombre pattern so they'll be dark raspberry on the bottom and will fade up to white. There's two lovebirds (haven't decided what color they'll be yet, but I'm thinking raspberry) sitting on two brances coming out of the top of the dress form. The dress itself will be ivory and the bust will be pleated. The entire cake will shimmer.
So, in preparation of the competition, I made the flowers yesterday.
Wait, there's more...
I wonder how many there are...
Wednesday, January 21, 2009
Fake Cake
It's not like I don't have prospects for cakes in the future...in fact I received my first deposit and cake contract in the mail yesterday. That was like Christmas morning. But I'm tired of my time being wasted by people who just want to chat about a cake that they're never going to order from me.
Tuesday, January 20, 2009
Cake Competition
I'm still debating about whether I want to participate or not. Half of me wants to go see what it's all about and the other half already sketched up an awesome tree dress cake (the theme is "The Great Outdoors").
Hmmm.......
Thursday, January 15, 2009
They're gone, they're finally gone!
Tuesday, December 30, 2008
50th Birthday Cake

Took this one with my phone too.
34th Birthday cake
Hope she likes it!
Sunday, December 28, 2008
Ever have one of those days?
So here it was, Saturday...I baked the cakes and made the parts of the wheel and went to a friend's house to watch the UFC fights.
I woke up early Sunday morning to finish the cake. I didn't have much to do. I made the filling and put the two cakes together. I leveled them, then made the buttercream. I crumb coated the cake and put it in the fridge. I relaxed for about an hour and took it back out to put on the thicker coat of buttercream. I make a crusting buttercream because of the humidity here so you have to add some light corn syrup to it to be able to spread it on the cake. So, I added the light corn syrup to it until it was silky & smooth. I started to put it on the cake and, not only did the crumb coat come right off, it was tearing off the cake with it!! I was freaking out so I just put the buttercream on super thick and put it back in the fridge. I let it sit for about an hour, took it out, put a thinner coat of buttercream on to even it out and put it back in the fridge. The first crisis is averted. I decided to go ahead and dye the fondant black while the cake was chilling. First, I ran out of black gel color while the fondant was still gray. So, I had to run to Walmart to get more. One of the joys of living in Hillbilly Hell is that Walmart is about 30 minutes away. ARRGH! So, an hour later, I'm back home, black gel color in hand, ready to get at it. I start to knead the fondant and what did it do? It crumbled in my hands. I was determined to make the cake black since all the parts of the wheel on top were different colors. I tried rolling it out in long rolls and wrapping it around the cake...that didn't work. I tried making squares and "tiling" the sides of the cake. Half way through, I decided it looked like crap and I would never send a cake out looking like that. So I had to take all the squares off the cake and re-apply the buttercream. Luckily I had some extra white fondant and made some gray. I covered the cake with the gray. The only problem was that I rolled one end too long and the other end too short. I tried to pick it up and move it over but the buttercream was fresh and had a firm grip on the fondant. So, I just bit the bullet and started smoothing it out. Well...I had already moved the cake to the cake board to put the squares on it and I didn't move it back to the cake table to put the gray fondant on. So when I started smoothing it out, the cake ended up with crinkles all along the bottom. So, I put the spatula under the cake and carefully lifted it to the cake table. In the middle of this process, my daughter decided it would be fun to grab my leg, cake mid-air, and scare the crap out of me. When she did, my thumb went through the side of the cake, right through the fondant. I get the fondant smoothed out, the wheel put together, the stripe around the bottom and it was off. 2 HOURS LATE for a surprise party. My husband took my daughter and delivered the cake for me. I stayed home and got drunk in the backyard with the dog. I went to bed at 5:30.
Friday, December 26, 2008
Some cakes...
For an office party (the bottom is french vanilla with cream cheese filling and the top layer is chocolate cake with peanut butter filling)
And here's for Oma's Christmas Eve bash-o-rama (french vanilla with cream cheese filling - my fav):